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Japan's GMO Internet is dealing with a serious breach tonight, after hackers allegedly posted stolen customer data online. The Tokyo-based internet giant says it's actively verifying the scope of the leak following a compromise of its cloud services, and customers are understandably on edge waiting for answers.
On the hardware side, a developer named Nathan Alspaugh has built something genuinely clever — a keyboard called Keybytes that starts with a single key and expands magnetically, Lego-style, into whatever layout you want. Each key runs its own microcontroller, meaning the design is as minimal or as elaborate as the person building it. It's a niche project, but it asks a real question about why keyboards have always been one-size-fits-all.
And in the ongoing foldable phone debate, Engadget is digging into whether book-style foldables or clamshell designs actually serve people better day to day. It's less about specs and more about habit — how you hold your phone, what you use it for, and whether the trade-offs in durability and pocket size are worth the premium.
Those are the stories worth watching today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
